![]() ![]() ‘A Writer’s Answer to Bertolt Brecht’ offered a thought-provoking challenge to the assumption that Brecht is still relevant today - and this was answered by Brecht’s poem ‘On the label emigrant’, which seemed to resonate particularly strongly in light of newspaper headlines about migrant crises and bombastic political rhetoric about immigration quotas. There were some astonishingly powerful lines and images in one poem, ‘teeth begin to scream like scissors scraped down rusty metal bars’. Tom Kuhn joined the authors as they read a combination of Brecht and their own work, covering topics from homelessness to the power of words to both heal and abuse. The reading was introduced with an explanation that the workshops had been focused around responding to Brecht poems, newly translated by Dr Tom Kuhn (Oxford University) and poet David Constantine. Crisis works with those who are currently homeless, or who are facing homelessness or have been homeless in the last two years. The first half, billed as ‘Words as Weapons: Two Worlds Collide’, involved readings of poems both by Brecht and by authors from Crisis Skylight’s writing workshops. Very much a show of two halves, the evening combined readings of newly translated poems by Brecht and writers’ responses to the poems, and a separate ‘Berlin Kabaret’ show by Sphinx Theatre that resurrected cabaret and propaganda songs from the 1920s-1950s. ![]() In true cabaret style, ‘A Berlin Kabaret!’ at the Old Fire Station was an eclectic jumble of recitation, song, and drama. ![]()
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